In this interview with CCBJ, Lionel Schwirtz, Deputy CEO of Legal-Suite, explains how automated contract management solutions and artificial intelligence can reduce costs and boost operational efficiency.
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AROUND THE CLOC: Highlights from the 2019 Vegas Institute
The message in the opening remarks was clear: Despite recent leadership changes – not to mention a certain amount of backstage drama – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium is more committed than ever to their movement and taking it further faster.
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Go Beyond E-Billing for Greater Savings
Mature corporate law departments use e-billing technology to manage outside counsel spend without sacrificing results. According to ELM Solutions’ director of legal operations and industry insights, Nathan Cemenska, however, e-billing can’t do everything. In a previous post to In-House Ops, he discussed other solutions that help meet these challenges. Here, he talks about what form that help can take.
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For This GC, Doing More With Less Drives Continuous Innovation
Mark Smolik, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of DHL Supply Chain Americas, assesses the ongoing expansion of in-house legal departments, including how they fit into a business’s overall structure, today and in the future.
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E-Discovery Software Boosts Defensibility of In-House Processes
When the challenge is time, the key is to optimize the tasks the team is already doing. Software that works for you, not against you, can do just that.
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Venture Beyond Legal in Tracking In-House Data
Work within the law department goes way beyond strictly legal matters. According to Aaron Pierce of CounselLink, information related to that work can be invaluable in optimizing your team’s performance. In this interview with CCBJ, Pierce, an industry veteran, provides insights on how to broaden data capture and analysis to improve performance.
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E-Billing Is No Panacea for Law Departments
Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights at Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, says that complex billing guidelines coupled with the mounting workloads of in-house professionals erodes the effectiveness of e-billing solutions. Here, he provides some useful advice on maximizing e-billing ROI without dumping more work on law departments already slammed with too much to do.
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Communication from the Eye of the Storm
Perkins Coie’s Toby Brown discusses the importance of trust and communication in maintaining positive relationships between in-house and outside counsel.
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Capture Pricing Data with the End in Mind
Barnes & Thornburg’s Jared Applegate discusses challenges and ideas for gathering and using data.
CCBJ: Both law firms and in-house law departments look to gain pricing certainty from a better understanding of data related to matters. What type of data should be focused upon?
Jared Applegate: From an in-house law department perspective and, frankly, from a law firm perspective, I think you always want to start with the end in mind. Ask these questions: At the end of the day, what business decisions will be driven by the capture and analysis of the data? Will that ultimately provide greater value/insights to my business unit leaders?
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Special Special Ops
Bjarne P. Tellmann, CLO and GC of Pearson, recently dished up a bit of advice for law departments facing continuing resource restraints
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